Yeah I think they have dug themselves in deep shit and this will not go away until they make everything public and take action. And Linus as well as Terren Tong know this.

It means they're hiring someone. What will matter is which type of firm they hire:

1. Firm with a proven track record of being unbiased in their processes and conclusions.

2. Firm with a track record of finding no fault, only low level scapegoats

3. Unknown firm, likely the same result as option 2.

My point is that when you are the one ordering an investigation on yourself, usualyl the results are bound to be highly skewed towards what you want.

I've seen my government recently do this in a pretty big corruption case that would have made heads roll, as well as a couple other private entities I can think of who have hired "outside investigators" to investigate themselves only to go like what I said.

I'm obviously open to being proven wrong in this case, but the track record of such things isn't very positive.

Sorry I wasn't very clear, I just didn't want to make my comment too big.

Third-party investigator is just a long handed way of saying, I'm still paying this person. Unless someone is being forced to be investigated by an outside source, get ready for some bullshit.